Beyond IT, every job that is a non-manufacturing, desk job and can be done remotely over the phone and a network is a candidate to be outsourced to a business processing center outside the United States and typically in India.
The people who are worried are not your run of the mill hippy protesters, they are from all walks of life who are concerned about the erosion of the 'American way.'
Someone losing their job to a contract manufacturer in China or an IT services company in India today is less likely to find alternate employment in a hurry.
i wish google started an online auction like ebay, that makes so much sense, they have world class programmers, down to earth ethical principles, the capital, and they can promote it through google, simple!
I'm going to start my PhD in philosophy in the fall. However, I have also worked extensively with software and software development; I've even written some stuff destined for commercial release. I can tell you that the solidity of the truth-criteria of software development and lit crit are very, very similar, and the fact that you have no clue about the goings-on at that conference of yours speaks only of a difference in field. For instance: Are more, or fewer, comments in source code desirable? How about highly-specific, tightly-optimized assembly versus a perl script? The po-mo's (and, btw, that pastiche of terminology you collected is in no way exclusively postmodern, or even, for that matter, literary) would have just as much trouble understanding the virtues of object re-use and garbage collection and multiple inheritance, and would be just as tempted to derision.
Your critique, BTW, goes much deeper, and is much less grounded than the Sokal hoax, which confined itself to apeing a particularly noisome constellation of theory; the converse of what you have done would be an attack on computer science based on the foibles of visual basic.
The upshot is: Do not be tempted to Volkisch, chauvinist rallies about your discipline. Ignorance, IMO, is fairly evenly distributed over academe.
giving a few million people a few dollars isn't going to change the world, I think the 1.1 Billion dollars would have been better invested in open source software.
a lot of bloggers work for large companies, attened events or whatever but never give out personally identifying information.
Myself, I talk about work all the time but never use my real name or the company I work for. If you were clever you could work it out but - the company could never pin it on me. Anyway whos going to enforce this anyway
I actually purchaced one of these last month to have a network accessable drive where I could store all my DIVX ^W, *cough* linux isos.
While the throughout is not as great (I can get 10mb a sec) as my firewire setup where I get closer to 20mb per sec.
I can live with that because all the computers in my home network can access the files and it is adequate for streaming live videos.
The only problem is that after using it for a few it weeks it slowed down to a crawl, it does not contain any chkdsk style utils either so I didn't know if it was suffering from corruption. So I took it back to bestbuy and they said they could not refund me but insead would sent it for repail. To snap's credit they got it back to me in less than a week - fixed and with a small apology note. Great service but it had a few scratches on it that were not there befoere so I contacted them to complain and they blamed me for the scratches and remained adamant they they were not at fault.
ESD - 1 second lag with MP3s. Say what?!? Not true. Yes, its a "user" daemon, and that is as it should be. Because it also supports network transparency for audio. Eg. Try playing audio on your laptop... with the sound coming out of your stereo... that happens to be wired to your media server... Come on, I dare you, do it in Windows.
I have a laptop running win2k and a media server running xp. What I do is use terminal services to redirect audio from my laptop to my HTPC which plays it out of the stereo.
My company uses the same co-location center but we have our own conectivity to ABOVE.NET so it hasn't really affected us but it worries me that people can just roll in there and steel our equipment.
In this post 9/11 era I would have expected security to be tighter. What if a terrorist had got in there and blew up all our data.
Did you know that companies which lose their historical customer data generally go bankrupt in a few years. For terrorists this would be a major blow to interest banking which they so abbhor.
Alot of people have animosity towards Adobe, myself included over various issues, but there is one thing that Adobe has that nobody else can hold a candle to:
Photoshop.
This one software package is single-handedly keeping me from migrating to Linux. For those who say "But what about Gimp? It's just as good..."
Those people have also never done professional graphics for print, video or even the web. The toolset within Photoshop is unrivaled, it's color acuity precise, and it's workflow caters to multiple mind sets. For every one way to do something there is a handfull of other, equally successful methods to achieve exactly the same result. It is an artist's tool.
Mature? Nope. There are dozens of features that the community has been begging to have integrated for years, and slowly but surely Adobe has listened. I can understand not implementing every little widget and gizmo that has been suggested by crackpot users over the years into their flagship product line, and each new upgrade offers something useful that can either save me time or opens up a new realm of creative flexibility. Photoshop has many years to grow, become better and more refined. Most people just don't see it because a histogram is this wierd spikey deal that screws up an image, filters are normally reserved for creating 'L3nZ FL4r3s', and the layer effects were the perfect time saving device for all those bubbly drop shadowed graphics with glowy mouse-overs your client is begging for.
There is no alternative, and by glancing at the top 10 new features, it seems that Adobe has not forgot that Photoshop is not a toy program. I didn't see any "Improved Applesque Button Creation" feature.
I don't think there will be much opposition either.
I lived in China for six months last year teaching English at a University. What I found particularly amazing, was that the culture has taught people not to question things. Even my PhD students largely accepted whatever was told to them. So even though there may have been forums online for them to learn about political dissent, most wouldn't particularly have been interested (a few seemed more aware than most, but only a very few).
Add to this the location of these forums. Online. China does have internet cafes in the larger areas, but the bulk of the country is too poor to even go into them, let alone find their way to some hidden forum.
I'm all for more individual freedoms in China, but I think most westerners really don't have a clue about how our cultural upbringing has affected us, and how their culture has affected them.
Stability is a bare minimum. It took Microsoft a while to bring Windows up to some semblance of stability, but they have a lot of developers and vendors to bring into line with their product.
I still favor Linux over Windows when it comes to stability, but there are several other facets of the Windows operation system and Microsoft philosophy that turn me (and likely other Slashdotters) off. First, security. I don't like my browser or mail client doing things I'm not explicitly aware of. I cannot use Windows with a clear conscience because of IE's and Outlook's persistent security failures. Add in IIS for Windows incarnations with IIS installed an running. This is compounded by the fact that these pieces of software cannot be uninstalled. I don't really care about the monopoly angle with the bundling of IE/Outlook. Linux distros "bundle" similar items if not more which I like. The difference is that if someone finds a bug in Mozilla that puts me or my network at risk, I can wipe it clean from my hard drive and fall back on alternative software packages.
Cost is another obvious difference, but one that I think will eventually catch up to Microsoft more than any antitrust case or business practice. It's evolution, baby. The personal computer is still a wonderful, versatile thing. I use it to write, program, listen to music, watch movies, capture/edit/burn digital video, and game. But it isn't a new concept on which a business can build on and dominate market share any more. There are a growing number of open source software projects that meet or even exceed their commercial competitors capabilities. OpenOffice, Mozilla, and Apache to name a few. There's three software projects right there that are relevant to the corporate world's preoccupation with information technology.
Commercial software that meets a need or niche that open source solutions cannot fill is going the way of the dinosaurs. They had their chance, but it's not the way I see software evolving. Why depend on a single commercial source for solutions when you can support a core group of developers in producing a piece of software that everyone can benefit from?
I don't so much find Windows to be inferior. It's just that Linux and the canon of open source software built upon it make so much more sense financially, socially, and from an engineering standpoint.
If you could go home and log onto the Maxwell's website and pay to download the concert, regardless of the length, it would be better than being half drunk trying to work some kiosk. If they only want to make the downloads available to ticketholders, they can put an unique password on each ticket that allows the purchase of only that concert.
If I went to a show and it was good, I'd definitely pay $10.00 to download a digital copy of it.
The keychain thing is an unnecessary gimmick and won't last.
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nigz i still got the skillz 2 pay da billz
Beyond IT, every job that is a non-manufacturing, desk job and can be done remotely over the phone and a network is a candidate to be outsourced to a business processing center outside the United States and typically in India. The people who are worried are not your run of the mill hippy protesters, they are from all walks of life who are concerned about the erosion of the 'American way.' Someone losing their job to a contract manufacturer in China or an IT services company in India today is less likely to find alternate employment in a hurry.
i wish google started an online auction like ebay, that makes so much sense, they have world class programmers, down to earth ethical principles, the capital, and they can promote it through google, simple!
Here is graph showing the software contracts going to commercial vendors verses open source solutions the funny thing is that 10 years ago there was more Open source usage than there is now.
I was one of the first to get it, and at that time there was no limit on how short it could be.
I am having problems getting the file, please send it to me, bobNOSPAM@gmail.com and I will upload to a high bandwidth mirror.
lol your sig is fucked, also get your arse to #gnaa - irc.gnaa.us (not irc.pihost.us)
I'm going to start my PhD in philosophy in the fall. However, I have also worked extensively with software and software development; I've even written some stuff destined for commercial release. I can tell you that the solidity of the truth-criteria of software development and lit crit are very, very similar, and the fact that you have no clue about the goings-on at that conference of yours speaks only of a difference in field. For instance: Are more, or fewer, comments in source code desirable? How about highly-specific, tightly-optimized assembly versus a perl script? The po-mo's (and, btw, that pastiche of terminology you collected is in no way exclusively postmodern, or even, for that matter, literary) would have just as much trouble understanding the virtues of object re-use and garbage collection and multiple inheritance, and would be just as tempted to derision.
Your critique, BTW, goes much deeper, and is much less grounded than the Sokal hoax, which confined itself to apeing a particularly noisome constellation of theory; the converse of what you have done would be an attack on computer science based on the foibles of visual basic.
The upshot is: Do not be tempted to Volkisch, chauvinist rallies about your discipline. Ignorance, IMO, is fairly evenly distributed over academe.
giving a few million people a few dollars isn't going to change the world, I think the 1.1 Billion dollars would have been better invested in open source software.
instead of playing games on your calculators do something productive like troll slashdot!
Heres a 3 part documentry about moden day gamers in the uk, it explores lan parties - professional gaming and the general gaming subculture.
TORRENT
made by a student so not the best but still intereting.
a lot of bloggers work for large companies, attened events or whatever but never give out personally identifying information.
Myself, I talk about work all the time but never use my real name or the company I work for. If you were clever you could work it out but - the company could never pin it on me. Anyway whos going to enforce this anyway
Its not like it kills anyone to wait a few hours for their dns changes to propagate?
order yours today
order your Nick Berg's Head t-shirt today
nothing except bandwidth. I have access to MSDNAA (the MSDN Academic Alliance).
While the throughout is not as great (I can get 10mb a sec) as my firewire setup where I get closer to 20mb per sec.
I can live with that because all the computers in my home network can access the files and it is adequate for streaming live videos.
The only problem is that after using it for a few it weeks it slowed down to a crawl, it does not contain any chkdsk style utils either so I didn't know if it was suffering from corruption. So I took it back to bestbuy and they said they could not refund me but insead would sent it for repail. To snap's credit they got it back to me in less than a week - fixed and with a small apology note. Great service but it had a few scratches on it that were not there befoere so I contacted them to complain and they blamed me for the scratches and remained adamant they they were not at fault.
I really doubt he is a troll. he looks like an dedicated open source developer.
I think you are just bitter that he is laying down the truth (which even the moderators can agree with).
My company uses the same co-location center but we have our own conectivity to ABOVE.NET so it hasn't really affected us but it worries me that people can just roll in there and steel our equipment.
In this post 9/11 era I would have expected security to be tighter. What if a terrorist had got in there and blew up all our data.
Did you know that companies which lose their historical customer data generally go bankrupt in a few years. For terrorists this would be a major blow to interest banking which they so abbhor.
Alot of people have animosity towards Adobe, myself included over various issues, but there is one thing that Adobe has that nobody else can hold a candle to:
Photoshop.
This one software package is single-handedly keeping me from migrating to Linux. For those who say "But what about Gimp? It's just as good..."
Those people have also never done professional graphics for print, video or even the web. The toolset within Photoshop is unrivaled, it's color acuity precise, and it's workflow caters to multiple mind sets. For every one way to do something there is a handfull of other, equally successful methods to achieve exactly the same result. It is an artist's tool.
Mature? Nope. There are dozens of features that the community has been begging to have integrated for years, and slowly but surely Adobe has listened. I can understand not implementing every little widget and gizmo that has been suggested by crackpot users over the years into their flagship product line, and each new upgrade offers something useful that can either save me time or opens up a new realm of creative flexibility. Photoshop has many years to grow, become better and more refined. Most people just don't see it because a histogram is this wierd spikey deal that screws up an image, filters are normally reserved for creating 'L3nZ FL4r3s', and the layer effects were the perfect time saving device for all those bubbly drop shadowed graphics with glowy mouse-overs your client is begging for.
There is no alternative, and by glancing at the top 10 new features, it seems that Adobe has not forgot that Photoshop is not a toy program. I didn't see any "Improved Applesque Button Creation" feature.
(yet)
I don't think there will be much opposition either.
I lived in China for six months last year teaching English at a University. What I found particularly amazing, was that the culture has taught people not to question things. Even my PhD students largely accepted whatever was told to them. So even though there may have been forums online for them to learn about political dissent, most wouldn't particularly have been interested (a few seemed more aware than most, but only a very few).
Add to this the location of these forums. Online. China does have internet cafes in the larger areas, but the bulk of the country is too poor to even go into them, let alone find their way to some hidden forum.
I'm all for more individual freedoms in China, but I think most westerners really don't have a clue about how our cultural upbringing has affected us, and how their culture has affected them.
I still favor Linux over Windows when it comes to stability, but there are several other facets of the Windows operation system and Microsoft philosophy that turn me (and likely other Slashdotters) off. First, security. I don't like my browser or mail client doing things I'm not explicitly aware of. I cannot use Windows with a clear conscience because of IE's and Outlook's persistent security failures. Add in IIS for Windows incarnations with IIS installed an running. This is compounded by the fact that these pieces of software cannot be uninstalled. I don't really care about the monopoly angle with the bundling of IE/Outlook. Linux distros "bundle" similar items if not more which I like. The difference is that if someone finds a bug in Mozilla that puts me or my network at risk, I can wipe it clean from my hard drive and fall back on alternative software packages.
Cost is another obvious difference, but one that I think will eventually catch up to Microsoft more than any antitrust case or business practice. It's evolution, baby. The personal computer is still a wonderful, versatile thing. I use it to write, program, listen to music, watch movies, capture/edit/burn digital video, and game. But it isn't a new concept on which a business can build on and dominate market share any more. There are a growing number of open source software projects that meet or even exceed their commercial competitors capabilities. OpenOffice, Mozilla, and Apache to name a few. There's three software projects right there that are relevant to the corporate world's preoccupation with information technology.
Commercial software that meets a need or niche that open source solutions cannot fill is going the way of the dinosaurs. They had their chance, but it's not the way I see software evolving. Why depend on a single commercial source for solutions when you can support a core group of developers in producing a piece of software that everyone can benefit from?
I don't so much find Windows to be inferior. It's just that Linux and the canon of open source software built upon it make so much more sense financially, socially, and from an engineering standpoint.
If you could go home and log onto the Maxwell's website and pay to download the concert, regardless of the length, it would be better than being half drunk trying to work some kiosk. If they only want to make the downloads available to ticketholders, they can put an unique password on each ticket that allows the purchase of only that concert.
If I went to a show and it was good, I'd definitely pay $10.00 to download a digital copy of it.
The keychain thing is an unnecessary gimmick and won't last.
According to WikiPedia corel have abandoned the linux version as of April 2004